Short Bio:
Byrav Ramamurthy is currently a Professor and former Graduate Chair in the Department
of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). He is the author of the book "Design of
Optical WDM Networks - LAN, MAN and WAN Architectures" and a co-author
of the book "Secure Group Communications over Data Networks" published
by Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer in 2000 and 2004 respectively.
He served as the Chair of the IEEE Communication Society's
Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) during 2009-2011.
He served as
the IEEE
INFOCOM 2011 TPC Co-Chair.
He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Springer Photonic Network
Communications (PNET) journal.

His research areas include optical and wireless networks, peer-to-peer
networks for multimedia streaming, network security and
telecommunications. His research work is supported by the
U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA,
AT&T Corporation, Agilent Tech., Ciena, HP and OPNET Inc.